[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here is a project I did with Sundress Publications. Read their description of the series here. Click the image to read the Rap & Storytellingly Invention craft chap.If you have any problems with the audio I've uploaded the...
"Snider Hall was almost at full capacity as students, faculty and members of the community gathered to watch Dr. A.D. Carson perform "This Is the Next Time: Reflections on Resistance Through Rhymes and Revolutions." Carson, who is a hip-hop professor at the University of Virginia,...
I’ve been thinking a lot about “Talking to Ghosts.” It’s a song I’m constantly reminded of, actually. For me, it connects memories from many different points in my life—childhood at my grandmother’s home in southern Illinois, growing up in central Illinois, living on the Calhoun plantation...
“Students Debut a Mixtape Straight from UVA’s ‘Rap Lab’ in Unusual Final Exam” By Caroline Newman Even on a rainy Tuesday night, it’s not unusual to hear music pumping through the speakers at Boylan Heights, a popular restaurant and bar across the street from the University of...
On the July 1 recording of Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art, David and Leslie spoke with hip-hop artist and academic A.D. Carson, on the show for the first time, about his new album Sleepwaking 2 and Arcadia Rodriguez and Caitlyn McLeod talk about...